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- Shishir Kumar Ahambrahmasmi  – and yet God is a Puzzle! Though religion has been the boundaries of the lifestyle we follow, the epicenter remains God, which means a defined law around the undefined. My quest today is who, when, what, where, why and how is God. The Hindu ancient text, considered as the oldest, the nearest to which can be the Old Testament, explains ‘Gods’. A corner of it says that it is within us – the infinity and then the other corner gives it names, forms and says it should be treated as a king or a super human – an expensive house, dresses and great food. The journey from one infinite God to 33 Crore god and goddesses has been time taking and interesting. Hanging between the two theories we with time seems to have sidelined the oldest theory and are happy with the second one as the later seems more relevant in the physical world and can be perceived by our five senses. But to understand better let’s move as the belief moved from formless to...

Shishir Kumar Lately I have been a social media freak. I swallow Facebook, then Instagram, twitter and even if all those cannot justify my mental hunger I switch to Quora. New informations are secondary. False information is what I look for. Why? Oh, I am too looking for a chance to show off my own wikipedia, the one inside me. In one of such hunts I came across a post from a page called “Har Har Mahadev” that talked about the sounds captured by NASA from Sun that sounded OM, Really! Before I could spread the web of my own informations I came across someone who had already done it. A person from ISRO claimed that the information was wrong. He further stated “They (NASA) have captured a specific vibration. Flooded by some information from NASA’s website he concluded that if listened carefully the processed vibration sounds “Om”ish” followed by a car crash. Who is Dumb? No, I am not an option. I am asking between a religious channel that claimed the sound is...

- Swapnil Desai “Witch” – The one word that is as fearful or dreaded as a Demon. Wicca – A religion shunned by the New World. Witchcraft – A subject more feared than accepted.   When I was asked to write on this subject, I willingly and promptly accepted, not because of any “folklorish” elements of this topic that I will be addressing, but its because Who I am and What I believe is hugely misunderstood.   As much as the origin of the word “witch” is still debated, One popular etymology for witch maintains that it is related to the English words wit , wise , wisdom [Germanic root * weit- , * wait-, * wit- ; Indo-European root * weid -.* woid- , * wid- ]. 1   Another theory claims that witch is derived from a root meaning “holy” or “sacred” and thus reflects the witch’s ancient religious role [Germanic root * weih- , * waih-, * wih- ; Indo-European root * weik -, * woik- , * wik- ]. This appears in the Modern German word for Christmas, Weihnacht, literally “holy...

- Shishir Kumar Not even in vicinity of reality! No, not aghora but our understanding of it. What thoughts come in your mind when you hear the word Aghora? Cannibals? Sex with Corpse? Fierce? None of the above is correct and this I can say after a deep plunge into the world of Aghoris. I say this as I did not make an attempt to research like a journalist for a piece of writing or a documentary but I understood it being one of them.  Aghor is a Sadhna that is done by those who dwell in the funeral ground and those who lead a normal life.  It originated from Lord Dattaterya who gave it to his disciple Lord Shiva and later in time was practised by one the the Navnaths his holiness Kanifnath.  Aghor has three divisions. Those in west India follow Dattaterya and Girinar Mountain Range is there abode. They have a firm faith in Mahakaal.  Then comes those who dwell in East India, an area influenced by Kamakhya and Kali. Those in Central I...

  -Shishir Kumar India is a land of mystery. When we add ancient to the current Indian map the mystery gets graver. How were we 4000 years ago? Literature here take us on a mystical journey into our missing past that looks exactly like the one we are living today. Read and get a serious jolt to rethink if we are missing our yesterday or we are living a time loop! 1. Dasaavtra - Theory of evolution   While the rest of the world waited for Theory of evolution till 19th century, India had it since 3138 BCE. The Dasvtara is about the incarnation of the Hindu God Vishnu. According to it God incarnated on earth the following sequence - Fish (Water dweller), Turtle (water and Land Dweller), boar (Land dweller), Narshima (Half human half animal), Dwarf (The undeveloped human), Parshuram (the hunter), Rama (homo sapiens) the ninth Krishna was portrayed as the smarter upgrade while the ninth that is yet to come shall be responsible for the destruction of Eart...

Death. It's inevitable and since the time immemorial, has mystified and dismayed us. Death is the only certitude of life but can we predict it? Well science cannot really predict your death for you. Here we brings before you the first series of our articles describing various signs of death as elucidated in Ayurveda, the ancient healing science. As flower is manifestation preceding the would-be fruit, certain morbidities precede death. Sometimes a fruit may appear without a preceding flower but the certain morbidities do not recede without causing death. In the upcoming articles we shall discuss the morbidities which are not etiological in nature but resemble them in effect. In fact, they appear without any apparent cause and indicates the measure of the life-span particularly the signs of imminent death due to decadence of life. Keeping up the pace with our previous article, signs relating to the fatal morbidities are schematized owing to their conspicuousness. These corpor...

- Shishir Kumar And the later part night went discussing that what we just saw was what the Bengali legends call Dakini or this is the entity that is known as Chudail. Still not clear, but we had definitely seen something very disturbing. It was a challenge I had taken up. A tantric in his mid 40s had asked me to accompany him to the funeral ground where he would evoke the spirits and I would be able to see them. The condition was I should not run away. I? Run Away? Are you serious? He had asked me to come by 11 at night. But out of anxiety and pure happiness, I bought a bottle of 100 pipers and rushed to his house exact at 9. As I barged into his hut, he sat on a mat that looked like a cheap replica of tiger skin. That was the only cloth around him. Further, he was covered with beads and rosary. That was what I could see prima facie. His hut had an entry from right, he sat in the middle of opposite wall and visitors could sit leaning the left wall of the house. As my e...